Stuck understanding how to create a table with multiple columns in iOS Swift

Question

I\'ve spent the better half of the day so far researching and trying to understand how to make a table with multiple columns. Embarrassingly, I am still quite new to Swift and p

Answer 1

One approach is to use a custom cell in a tableviewcontroller. Your story board consists of a table in which the cell is a custom cell with UILabels for columns laid out next to each other (with properly defined constraints).

Example code for the controllers looks like:

import UIKit

class TableViewController: UITableViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    }

    // MARK: - Table view data source

    override func numberOfSectionsInTableView(tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
        return 1
    }

    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {

        return 3
    }


    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("reuseIdentifier", forIndexPath: indexPath) as TableViewCell
        cell.column1.text = "1" // fill in your value for column 1 (e.g. from an array)
        cell.column2.text = "2" // fill in your value for column 2

        return cell
    }

}

and:

import UIKit

class TableViewCell: UITableViewCell {

    @IBOutlet weak var column1: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var column2: UILabel!
    override func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()
        // Initialization code
    }

    override func setSelected(selected: Bool, animated: Bool) {
        super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated)

        // Configure the view for the selected state
    }

}